Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would get the same answer from the Danes themselves, not on account of national pride but because it would be indecent to sell their own countrymen...
...widely admired-first as a roadbuilding, budget-balancing governor of North Carolina, most recently as an Under Secretary of the Treasury in whom businessmen had full confidence. Almost everybody could find something to like about this hearty "liberal conservative" with the homespun manner and the gilt-edged bank account. And almost everybody wanted to give him a farewell party before he left for London and his new job as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...been caught by the Nazis and never heard from again. It is possible that Mme. Leon, thought to be in the south of France, has some of the notebooks from which students of Joyce might learn more of his plans for the work which death interrupted. By one account it was to be an epic on the sea; by another, a classic tragedy...
Captain-center Dave Abbott, assisted by wingman Henry Flecher, slammed two quick tallies into the net at the beginning of the third period and saw his pass to center Bob Almy driven home to account for another marker one minute later...
...with even less "plot" and hardly more fictional fireworks than might be found in an Elizabeth Bowen story, it is perceptive, skillful, and now & then witty. Emerson once shrewdly observed: "Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see across a gulf." This is an account of the Macloud gulf, told mostly in terms of young Nora's reactions and those of her father, who at points finds himself quite as baffled...